UC Santa Cruz ‘History of Consciousness’ Program Offers Numerous Marxist Courses
“the specific nature of gendered oppression and exploitation under capitalism”
Why are so many young people so open to socialism? It’s a real mystery.
Campus Reform reports:
UC Santa Cruz ‘History of Consciousness’ program features multitude of Marxist courses, including class on ‘Ecological Marxism’
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) features a high concentration of Marxist and anti-capitalist courses in one of its graduate programs, as well as in several other departments.
History of Consciousness is an “interdisciplinary graduate program” that purports to promote “problem-driven research vital to new forms of knowledge and intelligibility and to meet the challenges of imagining new modes of scholarship for the arts, social sciences, and humanities,” according to the school’s webpage.
A look at the program’s course offerings, however, reveals a large number of courses promoting Marxist ideology, such as “Introduction to Marxism,” in which students are introduced “to the thought of Karl Marx and some of the major thinkers working in the Marxist tradition.”
The course also investigates “the specific nature of gendered oppression and exploitation under capitalism” and how Marx’s writings can be used “to make sense of our ecological crisis at present.”
The intersection of Marxism and ecology is further explored in “Ecological Marxism.”
“This class introduces Marx’s fundamental ideas about labor, nature, and capital, with a focus on the ecological dimensions of his thinking,” the course description states. “It also examines current Marxist perspectives on ecological crisis and their convergence with ecofeminist, anti-colonial, and Indigenous standpoints.”
Other courses also study feminism and colonialism as they pertain to Marxist thinking, such as “Marxism and Feminism,” which “Introduces the foundation of Marxism and feminist-Marxist critique while examining the international feminist struggle historically from the origins of capitalism to the present moment.”
The school offers another course of the same name in the Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies Departments. That course “[e]xplores critically the intersections and crisis points between feminism and Marxism as bodies of thought, theoretical formations, and forms of historical inquiry.”
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It is great to learn about Marx!
However, the course should include each attempt to adopt communism and how if actually impacted the people.
Afterall, how communism impacted the people in the past is history.
In learning about Marx and his disciples, students should understand why Marx was wrong. He was wrong in almost the way that James Madison was right. Marx and his disciples thought that individuals were malleable to conform to Marxist doctrines but failed to understand human nature whereas James Madison worked to construct a system of checks and balances to forestall the worst of human nature.
A few claims underlying Marxism and Marx’s followers revealing their false understanding of human nature:
“All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.” Marx
“Individual are dealt with only in so far as they are the personifications of economic categories, embodiments of particular class-relations and class interests.” From The Capital: A Critique of Political Economy”, Marx, 1867
“The working class are to Lenin what minerals are to the metallurgist.” Maxim Gorky
“A blank sheet of paper has no blotches, and so the newest and most beautiful words can be written on it, the newest and most beautiful pictures can be painted on it.” Mao Tse-tung
“Only the newborn baby is spotless”, Khmer Rouge slogan
In contrast our founders, and the nation over the years, has looked at the guiding philosophy laid out in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”
Two very different views of human nature – one successful, in part because it was based on a realistic view of human nature, and the other is Marxist.
Universities have proven themselves adept at appeasing the fedguv by changing the names of their DEI departments without changing any of their contents… so why not just appease opponents of this program by keeping the contents but renaming it, “History of Delusion?”
It’s cultural Marxism, one of the dumbest ideas the left ev3er produced. It amounts to victim politics flavored by Marxism. It is one giant grift, a way for incompetent people to move ahead of more qualified people in terms of wealth and prestige.
UCSC, and indeed the town of Santa Cruz, is a national park dedicated to the preservation of the sixties.